Vial of the Sands Recipe location confirmed by GM

this is what I asked:

This is a simple question I've been wondering, how do you get the recipe for Vial of the Sands?
I've seen on places like MMOchampion that it's a rare discovery.
But people have told me that it's a rare discovery from Archaeology, and on sites like WoWhead there is a useable recipe item.
Which of these is correct?
Thank you

this was the GM's reply:

You are receiving this mail in response to the help petition you submitted regarding, recipe for vial of the sands.

This is an alchemy recipe that is found through archaeology profession. So both are correct really.

If you need further help (I'm not going to write the rest, it's irrelevant)

there you go, get digging

Edit for SS or it didn't happen people :P

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wait.. I thought you had to do one of those research things similar to the northrend research CD to learn the recipe

found through archeology, he/she said, so maybe..

Dwarfs, gods among humanoids, giants among... gnomes...

Originally Posted by The Hitch-hikers' Guide To The Galaxy: Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly/thy micturations are to me/As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes. And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"

And that's precisely the reason it's BoP. The damn thing will cost enough to make as it is anyway, heh.

On topic: I'm a leeeeettle bit skeptical of this. GMs aren't exactly known for telling the truth 100% of the time, nor are they known for actually knowing everything. And I do find it at least a little bit weird that an alchemy recipe is only obtainable through another profession--granted, a secondary one.

P.S. So you got it in feralas meaning it's either a completely random thing or a night elf artifact? Did you get it by looting an artifact or was the recipe itself an artifact that had to be digged up (by digging 30+ times)?